1 Chronicles 21:25 - Scofield Reference Notes

Bible Comments

six hundred shekels of gold

A discrepancy has been imagined in the two accounts, (2 Samuel 24:24); (1 Chronicles 21:25); (2 Samuel 24:24) records the price of the threshingfloor (Hebrew, "goren"); (1 Chronicles 21:25) of the place (Hebrew, "magom", Literally, "home," (1 Samuel 2:20) same word or area on which afterward the great temple, with its spacious courts was built. (2 Chronicles 3:1).

David gave fifty shekels of sliver for the "goren"; six hundred shekels of gold for the "magom."

1 Chronicles 21:25

25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.